“Around 100 years ago, synesthesia was not only known, it was chic. French Symbolists like Rimbaud and Baudelaire aped its cross-sensory imagery in their poetry and lighted color organs coordinated note-to-hue in concert halls.” For Psychology Today our contributor Maureen Seaberg writes this article in her monthly column and a follow up on her recent book - "Tasting the Universe." I didn’t know what to call it but I only remember always seeing music and perceiving even diplomatic negotiations as individuals represented by colors that change hue, intensity but even pulsate – representing in my mind not only stated views, but intensity and bluff of the position. It is a way to organize a complex table to complement the intellectual debate on tangible issues that some employ as negotiating chips or ploys. Synesthesia though is mostly associated with artists: film, musical, canvas, screen play etc. They are more likely to be what we generally define as “conceptual.” I found out that I was uncommonly conceptual out of all things during a week long management training session as a 20 something senior executive at Standard & Poor’s ! Here is though a bit more of Maureen Seaberg’s article and LINK below – It’s great reading and perhaps revealing, especially if you think you may be… “Synesthesia-a neurologically-based trait in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. (Think: colored music, tasting words, feeling touch when hearing sound.) There are more than 50 recorded varieties of synesthesia, which the vanguard is now beginning to call "the synesthesias." People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes. The problem with synesthesia is psychology. Though the now-sexy trait of blended senses is enjoying a renaissance in research, popular interest and arts expression, it has not been so for nearly a century. Blame the Behaviorists.” READ MORE http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tasting-the-universe/201201/psychology-must-catch-synesthesia-research By Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey Facebook – Become a Fan at “Diplomatically Incorrect” 

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